Slightly tangential. Years ago, my melanated wife who could tolerate the sun laughed when I got a sunburn and "peeled like a snake." A strange thing to her. Now, with age and less collagen in her skin (thinning skin comes with age) she wears long sleeves and a brimmed hat in the Arizona sun. She can burn now. Has little to do with adapti…
Slightly tangential. Years ago, my melanated wife who could tolerate the sun laughed when I got a sunburn and "peeled like a snake." A strange thing to her. Now, with age and less collagen in her skin (thinning skin comes with age) she wears long sleeves and a brimmed hat in the Arizona sun. She can burn now. Has little to do with adaptive racial traits except that they give tendencies rather than gold plated imperviousness.
About ten years ago I went to the Pride Parade with a very black-skinned friend and I offered him some of my sunscreen, which he refused. And I said, "Doctors think *everyone* should be wearing it now, even black people, even really black black people, they're not 100% impervious to skin cancer either." He refused. It was a bright, hot day that day. I do wish they'd come up with sunscreen that doesn't make you feel dirty while it's on.
Slightly tangential. Years ago, my melanated wife who could tolerate the sun laughed when I got a sunburn and "peeled like a snake." A strange thing to her. Now, with age and less collagen in her skin (thinning skin comes with age) she wears long sleeves and a brimmed hat in the Arizona sun. She can burn now. Has little to do with adaptive racial traits except that they give tendencies rather than gold plated imperviousness.
Yeah, i think the moral of the story is we're all dumbasses when we're young and immortal :) Actually, *everyone* is encouraged to use sunscreen now, regardless of how dark your skin is, because *everyone* is susceptible to the effects of the sun: https://www.winchesterhospital.org/health-library/article?id=157004#:~:text=Health%20experts%20advise%20everyone%2C%20regardless,spots%20and%20wrinkles%E2%80%94and%20cancer%20.
About ten years ago I went to the Pride Parade with a very black-skinned friend and I offered him some of my sunscreen, which he refused. And I said, "Doctors think *everyone* should be wearing it now, even black people, even really black black people, they're not 100% impervious to skin cancer either." He refused. It was a bright, hot day that day. I do wish they'd come up with sunscreen that doesn't make you feel dirty while it's on.